PackageProject.cmake

Creating installable CMake scripts always requires a large amount of boilerplate code to get things working. This small script should simplify the CMake packaging process into a single, easy-to-use command.

PackageProject.cmake has been tested with CMake v3.18.4.

Usage

To create an installable target for your current project, add the following to your CMakeLists.txt. This example assumes the project to be versioned and the name to be identical to the library to export. Also the CPM.cmake script should be included. See here for an example usage.

CPMAddPackage("gh:TheLartians/PackageProject.cmake@1.6.0")

packageProject(
  # the name of the target to export
  NAME ${PROJECT_NAME}
  # the version of the target to export
  VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}
  # a temporary directory to create the config files
  BINARY_DIR ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}
  # location of the target's public headers
  INCLUDE_DIR ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include
  # should match the target's INSTALL_INTERFACE include directory
  INCLUDE_DESTINATION include/${PROJECT_NAME}-${PROJECT_VERSION}
  # (optional) option to install only header files with matching pattern
  INCLUDE_HEADER_PATTERN "*.h"
  # semicolon separated list of the project's dependencies
  DEPENDENCIES "fmt 7.1.3;cxxopts 2.2.0"
  # (optional) create a header containing the version info
  # Note: that the path to headers should be lowercase
  VERSION_HEADER "${PROJECT_NAME}/version.h"
  # (optional) create a export header using GenerateExportHeader module
  EXPORT_HEADER "${PROJECT_NAME}/export.h"
  # (optional) install your library with a namespace (Note: do NOT add extra '::')
  NAMESPACE ${PROJECT_NAMESPACE}
  # (optional) define the project's version compatibility, defaults to `AnyNewerVersion`
  # supported values: `AnyNewerVersion|SameMajorVersion|SameMinorVersion|ExactVersion`
  COMPATIBILITY AnyNewerVersion
  # (optional) option to disable the versioning of install destinations
  DISABLE_VERSION_SUFFIX YES
  # (optional) option to ignore target architecture for package resolution
  # defaults to YES for header only (i.e. INTERFACE) libraries
  ARCH_INDEPENDENT YES
  # (optional) option to generate CPack variables
  CPACK YES
  # (optional) relative install directory for runtimes: bins, libs, archives 
  # by default libs will be installed to <...>/lib/<packagename-version>/
  # / - means relative to <...>/lib, i.e. install libs to <...>/lib/, bins to <...>/bin/, etc
  RUNTIME_DESTINATION /
)

CPack

We provide only the most basic variables for CPack generation, however this might not be enough for each and every generator.